Revenant
Chapter 14
Two days later
Justice League Watchtower
"Can I join you?" A gruff voice asked.
"If you must Bruce" Superman said keeping his firm grip on a cup of coffee and continued to stare out of the large window.
Batman ignored the mixed emotion in Superman's voice and moved closer to the kryptonian. "I thought you were more open than this" He said looking out of the window at the view of the Earth shining below.
"And you're not?" Superman snapped before taking a sip of the coffee to get his temper back under control.
"I have seen alot of things and have come across alot of believes... what I have seen at that incident was just another one of those things" Batman simply said and crossed his arms against his chest.
"He was a hero like us... one day he was to join us as well as Gear... there is no chance that we will get over the loss of the young hero" Superman sighed and took a sip of his coffee before continuing. "Seeing him there as... as a angel before waking up and disappearing from my sight, to his explanation of why he was here on earth..." Superman stopped and looked at Batman.
Batman sighed and removed his mask, "You don't believe them don't you Clark?" He asked running his hand through his hair.
"I don't know what to believe... I... now what?" Superman started but was interrupted by the alarm going off. Batman slipped his mask back on before rushing off to the control room with Superman following above him.
"They are in the atmosphere" The evil doctor spoke.
"Yes Doctor, we have launched the missles to your precise orders" The shadowy figure said, his arms crossed against his chest.
"Now the real fun can begin" The doctor spoke before laughing.
Richie pushed back away from the desk that held his chemistry set before pushing himself off his chair and dived behind the couch.
A few seconds later the chemistry laboratory blew up leaving a huge scorch mark in the table and covered all of the surfaces in the chemical residue.
Adam rushed in and stopped just inside the door, "Richie? Richie?" He called, seeing the chemicals dripping off the roof fixtures and slide down the walls.
"Woah! What a mess, what happened bro?" Virgil asked straight into Richie's mind so not to blow his cover to Adam.
"Sorry, I'm ok, just mixed the chemicals wrong... don't touch it!" Richie said coming away from behind the couch and sighed. "Great! Now this is going to take a while to clean..." He said taking his safety goggles that covered his glasses, off.
"What is it?" Adam asked coming out of the doorway and slowly made his way across the gas station.
"It was going to be a new gel that would encase anyone covered in it, would turn hard as a rock... simliar to my ice and capture traps but more powerful" Richie said trying to remember what he did to result in his latest invention to explode.
"Do you want a hand with the clean up?" Adam asked looking around the gas station to see that the gel was starting to harden.
"Its ok, I know how to get it off without staining the walls any further" Richie said with a grin and dug out the small pendant.
Adam shook his head and left the messed up gas station, fishing out his cell phone as he did so.
"Think you managed to scare him Rich" Virgil spoke up after the door closed.
"Been doing that for a while" Richie shrugged. "Are you going to help or just watch?" He asked cleaning his glasses.
Virgil shrugged and held out his hand, around the outstretched hand appeared the familiar purple light that was his electromagnetic powers.
"I guessed as much" Richie laughed and headed for the source of the explosion to start cleaning up there.
Shenice was ordered out on patrol by Adam, he explained that Richie was tied up in cleaning up after one of his experiments while that Adam had to go and take Sharon out.
She was now performing her essential stretches that she had always done before going out on patrol or had just got out of bed. While performing these stretches, Shenice's mind sometimes wandered over anything that she felt needed her attention, this time it was the last few days since the incident at the mall.
She had soon got rid of the sore throat and headache that came with breathing in the gas but the other side of the gas was a mystery to her, this was her first proper patrol as when her parents had learned that she had been affected by the metagas.
Sighing deeply, Shenice looked around, made sure that her costume was secure before leaping off the roof and across the garage. She was about to leap over it and up on top of the power lines when she felt a odd tingle and lightness inside her, starting in her stomach but soon spreaded throughout her body,
'What? What is going on?' Shebang thought as she found herself floating in the air. Looking around a little stunned, she tried to figure out how she was doing this. 'The gas!' She realised and tried to close off the tingling sensation inside of her in an attempt to get the ground under her feet.
"Duck!" Richie called out.
Virgil looked up, "Where?" He said looking around the gas station for the source of Richie's paniked yell.
Richie and Virgil had both been using their powers to clean up the chemical residue with the stereo blaring out the local radio station.
Richie felt a sneeze come from nowhere while he had been using his poweres to move the gunge off the ceiling above the leftovers of his chemistry area. The sneeze had knocked his concentration and sent the ball of gunge flying and bounding off the walls.
Virgil had looked around and saw this but instead of it phasing through him, it crashed right into him. This encased him in the new adhesive like compound, it was designed to be twice as strong as his original traps.
Richie looked stunned, he had thrown different things at Virgil but they just passed through harmlessly before hitting the wall. This residue though had hit him and done the job that it was created for, encasing the victim in a concreate like shell.
"V...Virgil? You ok man?" Richie asked as he got back up on his feet and over to the large statue in the middle of the gas station.
Virgil foucused hard on all of the tricks that he knew from being a metahuman to all of the tricks his mom had told him but nothing worked. Calming himself down he relaxed and tried to see how he could break out but all thoughts failed him.
'I'm stuck... there is no way out for me' Virgil said telepathically.
"Oh um... have you tried everything?" Richie asked trying to figure out how to break the containment compound.
'Yes... everything, and nothing has worked' Virgil sighed telepathically.
"Ah... I don't know what to suggest Virgil... I'm not very good in understanding the physics of ectoplasm or whatever you're made of" Richie said while trying to think how to crack the shell.
Virgil inwardly sighed and focused on appearing next to Richie, he focused all of his other powers into getting out of the concrete shell that he was trapped in.
"What are you made of?" Richie asked then jumped onto his chair as Virgil appeared next to him looking very tried, like he had been soaked through while charged up.
"I don't know, I think what you said... ectoplasm or could be that stuff between the time whe you're asleep and when you're awake" Virgil said before yawning.
Richie laughed, "Right Casper, I'll keep that in mind!" He said amongst his bout of laughter and heard a beeping coming from Backpack.
Virgil yawned and shook his head tiredly. "What is it?" He asked.
"The chief, wonder what he wants" Richie said as he got up off the chair and disappeared back to go and change.
"Don't know... listen Rich man, I better vanish for a while... it wore me out getting out of that and well..." Virgil stopped when he felt his current form flicker.
Richie poked his head out, half dressed as Gear, well bottom half anyway. "Oh right... I'm sure its nothing V... if anything comes up then I can call Adam or Shenice to cover for me" He said as he got his arms into the top of his costume.
Virgil yawned and his form flickered once again, "Ok Rich! I'll check in later once I've rested up! Peace" He muttered.
"And Out!" Richie called back and felt the odd but pleasant feeling that Virgil sent out but only he could feel disappear.
Jean watched her son sleep on the bed she had called up for him, normally a few hours mediation restored their energy but now her son was fast asleep and that worried her.
"How long has he been like this?" A familiar voice asked as Jean summoned up two armchairs.
"About a hour" Jean sighed quietly as Virgil turned slightly in his sleep.
"Something can't be right Jean, you know this" The voice spoke again.
"I know, are you going to appear Mike or stay invinsible?" Jean asked with a slight grin.
Mike sighed and appeared, just under 6ft, he had short light brown hair and bright green eyes. Mike wore a long white ang old robe that billowed out widely, his wings were golden also.
"You do realise that this is against regulations" Mike said taking a seat next to Jean, who was busy making a drink for him.
"I do, I also know that this," Jean handed a cup of coffee to Mike, "Is pointless... what do you think?" She asked quietly holding her own cup.
Mike sighed and sipped some of the coffee he remember what the tasted like and how the caffine use to enter his system and help him live. "We're not sure... we are just allowing the events flow in the path they are following" He said as he put the cup down on the cloud shaped table in front of them.
Jean watched a few of the distant clouds drift by, "You know sometimes this cryptic language you higher powers speak drives us crazy" She said turning to look at Mike with a mild glare. "The path you have been talking about for over four years took my only son away from my family! He was Dakota's best hero and the life of the city!" She carried on in the quietest but most harsh tone she could use and had used but not for several years.
Mike sighed deeply, "I know... I can only tell you so much" He said and heard the silent tone that asked him to return. "They can wait..." Mike added with a sigh.
I am so sosssooo sorry everyone! I didnt realise that I haven't updated in so long! This has been sat in my pad saying post me and yet I didn't realise it till I was talking to valkyrie-alex on YIM!
Well here it is anyway! R&R Please